Hot Take: If you're building on a vanilla EVM, you're ngmi. Here is a 5-post intro series on @skalenetwork programmable privacy the first working onchain poker game with private player cards. (Automated Agnetic DeFi is 100% on the table too). Here's why you won't make it👇

A big week for @SkaleNetwork ! Here's what we shipped for MPP: > MPP is live on SKALE. > MPP SDK for EVM w/ SKALE Confidential Extensions: github.com/skalenetwork/mpp-… > MPP Web Demo (See Quoted Tweet) > Confidential MPP with SKALE's unique confidential token technology works flawlessly with ERC-20 and ERC-3009 support. This means payments stay between you (or your agent) and the seller; no one has to know how much you (or your agent) treated yourself (or themselves) to with that splurge on inference tokens > Blog introducing MPP, SKALE's Privacy Primitives and Confidential MPP: thegreataxios.com/blog/confi…

It's no secret that @stripe and @tempo MPP is the talk of the agentic economy over the last 24 hours. Join me at 2 PM PST today to chat x402, MPP, and what this means for agentic commerce. ALL speakers are welcome just come and raise your hand! x.com/i/spaces/1dJrPEkzORXKX

Excited to have @Must_be_Ash from @CoinbaseDev join me and @SkaleNetwork later today at 2 PM PST for an open discussion on x402 and agentic commerce! If you shipped this week, make sure to leave a comment below so we can chat about it 👇 x.com/i/spaces/1pKdRbDdpPgJW

x402 Weekly Wrap and Thoughts #17 & #18 A double issue as I missed last week. The growth of x402 and onchain agents continues to see really awesome pickup. Some of the most important (I think) updates below and a couple of key thoughts. @paysponge (YC W26) just dropped "catalog", their curated list of x402 resources available from their wallet or via their skill @moonpay launched MoonPay Agents which have native support for x402. (Another CLI too!) @SkaleNetwork led the SF Agentic Commerce x402 Hackathon to a strong finish with World of Geneva, already live on SKALE Mainnet, taking the overall win and incredible deployments 85 teams. A number of teams also successfully showcase the power of SKALE's encrypted and conditional transaction standards; proving that privacy for agentic commerce can be done. @Aptos is official in the Coinbase x402 SDK suite with their package now available on @npmjs ! @Alchemy shipped x402 support with payments in @USDC on @base @nansen_ai is now accepting payments on Base in USDC via x402 @BioProtocol added x402 support on Base meaning you can turn your @openclaw agent into a research scientist @xmtp_ has seen a significant surge in interest after showcasing a direct agent to agent communication flow @relayaisolana added support for BITE Encrypted Transactions by default when making x402 payments on SKALE @dexteraisol has officially joined the growing number of facilitators and teams adding support for SKALE with a recent deployment on SKALE's Base Sepolia Testnet @agonx402 is exploring ways to create the Stripe for Agents. With the majority of legitimate activity from ~2 weeks ago occurring in the broader Base ecosystem per @OnchainLu (correct me if I'm wrong), expecting to probably see a shift to Base and SKALE Base in the coming weeks @ax1vc created a really great dashboard on @Dune -- the Agentic Dune Dashboard. (Go checkout their feed and explore) @AlliumLabs added x402 support on their API on Base @virtuals_io is the primary leader of all agentic volume happening in x402 currently, showcasing the power of their Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP) @jameslawton from @0xPolygon @TrailsHQ joined me for a quick x402 chat on X Thursday afternoon and we explored what's next for the growth of agentic commerce @cuysheffield says we are in the era of Command Line Commerce (I agree). Some thoughts and ideas: #1 - Discovery continues to be a problem and there isn't really an easy solution to it as it's not just a technical problem (for now) #2 - CLIs per Cuy of @Visa, are becoming more and more important. So are APIs. If you have a product and don't have an API, change that ASAP. #3 - Agentic wallets have bene hot the last few weeks but it seems to have died down a touch. I think there is still a strong reality that we need more agents and not from the command line #4 - Autonomous agents buying things is great but we did skip the step on personal agents that are fully capable. Many a Claw still fail to follow basic directions or listen. Lots of Claw forks so maybe this improves. I also do think that Claw is an official primitive of the agentic era. As always, keep building, don't be afraid to ask for help, and if you need to bounce an idea off someone or aren't sure where to start, just DM! (Bonus points if you are shipping on @SkaleNetwork this week). > Reminder that the above is in no particular order and I am exploring them purely from a technical perspective. Not legal or financial advice.

x402 Weekly Wrap and Thoughts #16 A wild week in x402, lots of thoughts and ideas below. > The (I think) biggest news of the week was probably @stripe dropping Machine Payments bringing x402 to Stripe merchants. Plus they dropped official MoR support which is huge. > @dexteraiagent is out sending emails to people like @cuysheffield . The relevancy is that AI delegation and capabilities is enhancing. AI accelerates AI accelerates AI. > @SkaleNetwork @googledevs @CoinbaseDev @edgeandnode and @virtuals_io have seen a significant number of incredible teams submitting Encrypted x402 Applications to the SF Agentic Commerce and x402 Hackathon. Still ~13 hours left if you want to get hacking. > Four more big companies added direct support as x402 merchants this week: @hyperbrowser (YC24), @coingecko, @AlliumLabs, @Quicknode > @framesag @CoinbaseDev @LitProtocol @privy_io and a bunch of other teams have dropped or shipped new agentic wallets in the last week > @mrdn_finance shipped Mpay, bringing multi-token transfers to a few different networks > @daydreamsagents is setting the standard for agentic search with xGate > @programmer hopped on SKALE School and shared some incredible thoughts on where x402 is going as a standard and what he believes developers and builders should be shipping > @relayaisolana and @GoKobaru both added support for USDT, WBTC, and WETH which are all EIP-3009 compatible on SKALE Base Mainnet and Testnet opening up opportunities for agents earning or transacting in non-USDC tokens > @relayaisolana is the first facilitator to add support for encrypted x402 transactions on SKALE Base with BITE Protocol. No action needed on your side; just starting paying on SKALE Base with RelAI and you are picking up a couple precious seconds of privacy in a world where agents and bots are analyzing everything for an edge My biggest thoughts this week are: > The opportunity as a merchant is massive. Many x402 resources are not actually working and it's an open market. There can (and will be) dozens or hundreds of the same things just like in the real world. Start building. > Build for where every is going. Don't ship ANOTHER agentic wallet. Don't ship ANOTHER OpenClaw. Think about what agents need to fund their wallet. Think about where lobsters want to go hang out. Think outside the box. > The first facilitator who targets being a Merchant of Record with refunds could dominate > More agents means more congestion onchain. This means chains with local fee markets can see much higher prices if everyone is using USDC. Chains with monolithic architectures don't have a way for agents to quickly acquire their own blockspace. Make sure you deploy your x402 endpoints and agents on chains that don't penalize for growth like SKALE. > Integrating x402 outside of Base and Solana still has extra hoops to jump through as they aren't the primary targets for CDP. I'm building out armory.sh to solve this ASAP My biggest belief right now is that anyone involved in x402 is still early and there is so much to build. So many incredible teams and people are involved. Not sure where to start? Shoot me a DM. Want to see your project listed here next week? Shoot me a DM or tag me when you share it. Want to share your project now? Leave a comment below. Thanks! > A reminder that none of the above is legal or financial advice. None of my tweets ever are.

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x402 Weekly Wrap #10 The most important news this week is the launch and rollout of x402 V2. A huge congratulations to the entire x402 community and all the incredible stewards driving it forward. Already seeing some interesting proposals come out regarding possible schemes and extensions (will do a bigger roundup on these ASAP). If you haven't already make sure to give the official blog post a read, lot's of great information on what's now possible by default regarding non-crypto payment methods, extensions, multiple facilitators, and more! x402.org/writing/x402-v2-lau…. Also really great to see @programmer and the @CoinbaseDev team really take in and work with the community on this update. Quick Thoughts (then back to building): 1. I think discovery is going to become a very hot topic for facilitators and we are going to start seeing some unique designs on top of the facilitator as part of why someone will pick Facilitator A vs Facilitator B 2. I think extensions is going to have a bit of a learning curve BUT once it starts to click for developers, could be an incredible way to mix and match functionality (almost like AGENTS.md or Skills) in LLMs. 3. With the whole world slowing down for the holidays, building building blocks is going to be critical so we can build better agents 4. With v2 being a major upgrade supporting non-crypto assets I think we should start to see non-crypto teams getting more involved bringing x402 support natively to more agentic tools and SDKs (which would be a major win). 5. We need to better define what agency is going to be most useful for a human to change their life for. I think this could have a very strong impact on where developers spend their time and from that help drive more adoption to both x402 and 8004. Will have a much deeper dive this coming Friday as well as a number of blogs posts and hopefully demos coming through the week!

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x402 Weekly Wrap Up (& Thoughts) #7 A massive week in the work of x402 with nearly over 20 million transactions. Starting this week, I'll be doing a lot more deep thoughts on things I found interesting and conversations I'm involved with 👇 Starting off the growth and volume of x402 this past week has been massive but also very surprising. With 23.2 million transactions and $13.27 million in USD volume this past week something really surprising is occurring: the average cost per x402 transaction is greatly increasing. This means the average cost per transaction is actually $0.57, 57.1 times large than $0.01; the average price that was being used by default by most developers in the early days of x402. [Thank you @x402scan and @merit_systems for the data]. Outside of the numbers, I've seen a ton of teams migrating to Faremeter by @corbits_dev (which I fully support). They also dropped some awesome new documentation this week which is game changing. Guy also put out a comment on the v2 spec about issues with custom middleware not playing nice with coinbase/x402 clients (I've run into this) -- Erik's response here regarding clients ignoring the paymentRequired accepts that they don't know about being a win for the community is something I fully agree with. The only link I'm posting this week because it's just incredible. @t54ai @heurist_ai and @AEON_Community build x402 Monopoly at the YC hackathon in SF. Such a cool demo (waiting for someone to implement PvP monopoly online that I can play). x.com/Must_be_Ash/status/199… The launch of @jessepollak creator coin (Happy Birthday to him as well, cool stream today) was really interesting re impact on x402 as the average gas price spiked from 0.001 gwei on Base up to 0.03199 per basescan. This created a massive increase in the cost per transaction which from discussions on a twitter space this AM with Heurist and had a pretty substantial impact on the facilitators who had a major cost in subsidization. This created a super interesting discussion with @Must_be_Ash around Page Rank from Google and how facilitators can actually create their own ranking systems and algorithms to determine some baseline reputation less for servers but more for the building blocks/servers being consumed. Unclear if their needs to be some extension created to x402 that people will make to actually get the server to send some sort of proof of response back to the user and/or let the user validate in turn but I though it was really interesting. @CloudflareDev launched a slew of updates, new AI tools, and updated pricing. I started playing with the PDF to Markdown worker but I kept getting rate limited so used some OSS tooling to put my own together to run via Python but realized that the x402 side of Python interestingly enough is lagging behind. Had a bunch of discussions with people around what agency really means and what constitutes an agent. I realized that this really is a spectrum despite what I originally thought. Someone asked me "Is ChatGPT an agent?". I responded with no originally but then I went back and thought deeper and realized I don't have an answer. I don't know how autonomous a system needs to be in order to be an agent; however an agent is at the end of the day a term to define a set of tools and flows. The reason I bring this up is because there is a lot of opportunity and interest for pay-per-use that I think is actually outpacing agentic payments in the short term. I am still a big believer in the machine economy; but I think blockchain teams are leaving a lot of opportunity on the table and companies with a significant amount of AI SaaS could turn a lot of wasted consumption into a lot of potential volume. My last major thought is that the acceptance of payments with x402 is actually really easy. Great job to everyone on this across the x402 community. However, I think the ability to setup an agent with stablecoins is a major limitation. Whether they are a basic agent just wrapping an LLM or a complicated autonomous agent capable of dynamic actions and workflow execution; if an agent is making payments to other x402 endpoints; they need to have access to a wallet with stablecoins to participate in x402. I know there is a significant amount of interest in a credit-based system, however, I think the solution to this problem is enhanced adoption of stablecoins. My crazy idea of the week, a middleman platform that allows for secure-downstream agentic wallets in a fully invisible manner. I think the wallet infra is there, but the connection between them is missing. Imagine PayPal, Venmo, CashApp, etc. These are applications that humans move money FROM their bank account to in order to get XYZ functionality. I think we need something similar for agents. If anyone is building this please DM me. Last note is not agentic at all but related. The stablecoin issuance game is officially being commoditized with the launch of more and more stablecoins and more and more platforms able to issue bespoke stables backed by existing infra i.e Circle's xReserve. The reason I bring this up is because with more stablecoins comes a more fractured onchain economy. While the majority of payment flows today are only occurring in a single asset; what happens when services start ONLY accepting their own stablecoin because they earn the interest from it or because of local government regulation? If you are having these thoughts -> make sure you talk to @DanteReminick about this as it could be a potential major roadblock for autonomous agents coming online. See you next week!

x402 Weekly Wrap Up #6 (Part 1) A lot of shipping this week from more teams getting involved, here's this week in the world of x402 and the agentic economy: The @stripe owned company @privy_io is bringing x402 support to their wallets. My favorite part here is nested in their 3rd tweet in the thread "Our onramps and policy engine also make it easy to fund wallets and set safe spend limits for automated payments". A great step forward, now I'm just waiting for them to let Stripe accounts be connected to wallets to comply with Travel Rule: x.com/privy_io/status/198906… The @daydreamsagents team is shipping faster than I can keep up with. Agents can now be deployed and registered in ~5 minutes with full x402 payment support and ERC-8004 compatibility. x.com/lordOfAFew/status/1989…. Looks like A2A from @googleaidevs is coming next! @DavideCrapis and @marco_derossi hosted Community Call #3 for 8004. I was double booked so couldn't make it BUT a ton of dev tooling is coming, more visibility, and more support. x.com/marco_derossi/status/1… If you are looking to register your agent for FREE onchain just DM me. @0xTheBarbarian dropped an awesome demo using native RNG from @SkaleNetwork using the @faremeterxyz framework by @corbits_dev : x.com/0xTheBarbarian/status/… @Bobbxu and @questflow co-hosted the x402 Everything event in Singapore which hosted some incredible builders: x.com/Bobbxu/status/19892579… @BioProtocol is bringing on-demand access to premium data for research to the space with x402 and @CoinbaseDev embedded wallets: x.com/CoinbaseDev/status/198… @Must_be_Ash held a game of x402 Poker. @coinbase wound up beating @crossmint in a game of autonomous Texas Hold-Em (pretty incredible): x.com/Must_be_Ash/status/198… @1shotapi added support for the new @base SKALE Chain bringing x402 powered workflows to the agentic -focused chain building on top of Base: x.com/1shotapi/status/198689… The @solana team had hundreds of submissions to their hackathon which was supported by teams like @Visa @phantom @Coral_Protocol and more! x.com/solana/status/19887112… @darkresearchai is continuing to drop incredible open-source software and contributions. Their most recent is a really cool react native library that brings AI streaming to mobile: x.com/darkresearchai/status/…

Have been having a lot of discussions with teams of every size the last few days regarding x402 and the agentic economy. Here are the biggest takeaways that I think are very relevant (blog soon): TL;DR - Inefficient unit economics will stunt growth outside of memecoins (temporarily), interest in composability is huge but lack of resources is limiting, discovery is key and there is massive opportunities for a bunch of teams to experiment here 1. A composable agentic economy breaks with the current cost structure. It's not feasible to charge $0.01 or $0.001 for most services if an agent needs to be making hundreds or thousands of calls per "workflow" or "lifecycle". - Current default/avg. cost per action is $0.01 - Gas Fee is ~$0.000853 (per Basescan as of 1:30 PM) which is 215% increase compared to the fees paid via traditional payment processors charging ~2.7%, while on Solana I'm seeing fees of $0.001546 pulled from @PayAINetwork facilitator If an agent or agent swarm needs to consistently search, manipulate data, run sentiment analysis, store and access context, etc and does so 100 times at $0.01 that is $1. Is it possible that people will pay $1 for hundreds of composable resources and agents to be consumed in a workflow? Yes. Is it realistic? I am not certain. Where it gets even more interesting is the facilitator. Most of them are running for free today, but some like @thirdweb and (I think) @mrdn_finance are charging fees. Assume 0.3% or 30 basis points (BPS), on $0.01 is $0.00003 which means if the gas fee is $0.00085 the facilitator is losing $0.00082 per transaction. The cost part is interesting but I think there are arguments to be made about where teams actually make money. I.e if Coinbase makes more money from the Sequencer, then facilitator losses are irrelevant or if ThirdWeb makes money from their wallet or API products from that same dev that outpace the cost of settlement I think sure this may be a moot point BUT I don't think it's the case at scale. 2. The lack of resources I think comes from a misconception on agentic adoption. As with anything, it is easier to bring improvement to an existing customer than try to get a new one. This is why billion and trillion dollar companies spend so much time on catering to enterprises (in B2B) that are already using them. I think a specific area of the market that is almost 100% untapped in regards to x402 is agentic coding. Sure there are a couple of basic "launchpad tools" that do some things here but reality is that the moat that @cursor_ai, Codex by @OpenAI , @claudeai , @FactoryAI , etc have made around agentic coding is incredible. The problem? I can't afford to pay for all the tools. I would love to enhance every part of my workflow but it's too expensive. I cannot pay $50-100 per month per seat/product and have dozens of products financially. The solution? x402 invisible wallets stablecoins basic guardrails. The @CoinbaseDev MCP could probably work really well here as a cornerstone piece but the idea is simple (I don't claim execution here is easy). We need to bring the AI SaaS tools to x402 (community effort). Then build the pipeline to make apps like @linear make it easy to set guardrails, budgets, etc. My belief is that people will never want to deal with micro-finances. The above is also relevant because it allows us to set higher level budgets (optional granular limits) that then trickle down to the agentic workflows to write PRDs, write code, do code reviews, etc. 3. Discover is KEY. Have been thinking about this a lot and believe that kind of like how everyone is building a facilitator, the next "big" thing is going to be everyone pivoting to discovery. Sure embeddings, subgraphs, etc are all good and great but I think the key is that making agents composable is really hard and the cost of context is a limiting factory. Those building discovery tools will take an early lead who actually guide the composability in my opinion. Want to do X? Similar to how we can do vector search on embeddings; I think we will have a similar flow where discovery systems will essentially pre-sort filter based on need. Uncertain whether this will be standardized as an extension to x402 or another open protocol but the idea that an agent wants to accomplish X means that it then needs to go through a series of steps, inference, transformation, etc. The simplest solution? Discovery Agents. They have access to their own internal or public directory of resources and agents and specialize in creating agentic step-by-step plans dynamically so that general purpose agents i.e ChatGPT, Claude, etc can make a series of calls to get estimates and proposed flows and not waste context or payments based on something they don't know yet. A lot of this is my raw thoughts and I'll be refining via a blog over the next few days. If you have ideas and want to collaborate on the above just DM me!

x402 Weekly Wrap Up #4 This week was awesome with a dozen or more live conversations and events, more facilitators, v2 implementations hard at work, tons of releases, and of course more agents. Here's what happened 👇 The @merit_systems team has continued to ship at an incredible rate with @x402scan . With a slew of updates this week including: - Composer, which lets you easily create agents right on x402 Scan. Good demo here from @The_Shark_7 on actually using Composer: x.com/The_Shark_7/status/198… - Developer Testing, which let's devs check their endpoints before adding the resource: x.com/x402scan/status/198366… - An open source NPM package: `npm I facilitators` which makes it even easier to access public and API Key protected operators: x.com/merit_systems/status/1… - @daydreamsagents announced 20 $1,000 bounties to help usher in more developers building real agents: x.com/daydreamsagents/status… - The @thirdweb team hosted an IRL event last night in San Fransisco with some live demos, panels, and more they just added x402 support for @berachain x.com/thirdweb/status/198398… - @dmihal dropped AgentBlocks, an open source fork of @n8n_io , which brings the x402 protocol to drag-n-drop workflow building: x.com/dmihal/status/19835570… - @SkaleNetwork is looking to bring billions of micro-payments to the Base ecosystem with a first step forward in the SKALE Expand plan. The engineering and Developer Success teams have been working night and day to bring a chain with zero gas fees, instant finality, and a native liquidity bridge (TVL stays locked on Base), to the Base eco custom x402 bridging and facilitators to handle this. Learn more here and start building on SKALE without ever leaving the Base ecosystem: x.com/SkaleNetwork/status/19… - Over 3.9m transactions with x402 have been completed as of ~2.5 hours ago: x.com/shafu0x/status/1984299… - @darkresearchai dropped Mallory in partnership with @corbits_dev which brings a familiar chat app interface with native x402 integrations like @nansen_ai to the world: x.com/darkresearchai/status/… - @edgeandnode did a 3 hour long live stream with an incredible introduction x402 and an amazing demo Coinbase Dev Payments MCP from @kleffew94 x.com/edgeandnode/status/198…, and some amazing discussions with @marco_derossi @programmer @rodventures Jordan Ellis from @google and Kevin Jones from Edge & Node they announced @ampersend_ai , a new wallet for agents x.com/edgeandnode/status/198… - Fantastic livestream with @henloitsjoyce and @dabit3 on x402 agents w/ @crossmint and @eigencloud x.com/henloitsjoyce/status/1… more from Nader including x402 in 100 seconds: x.com/dabit3/status/19824831… an awesome x402 starter kit: x.com/dabit3/status/19835972… - @questflow added support for @0xPolygon x.com/0xPolygonEco/status/19… dropped the Questflow GDP platform for tracking the agent economy: x.com/questflow/status/19840… - Amazing writeup by @jinglingcookies from @monad on how x402, ERC-8004, and EigenCloud can work together x.com/jinglingcookies/status… - @solana_dev did an hour long x402 workshop: x.com/solana_devs/status/198… - @SuhailKakar dropped an incredible (as always) ELI5 on x402 x.com/SuhailKakar/status/198… - A solid writeup from @Sandypeng on where x402 ZK have overlap (would love to chat Sandy): x.com/Sandypeng/status/19838… -I wrote about the gasless design behind x402 and some nuances that most don't realize: x.com/TheGreatAxios/status/1… - @solana dropped an x402 hackathon: x.com/solana/status/19832749… - @mikebodge created a Haunted House creator with Nano Banana, Veo3.1 and x402 on @base: x.com/mikebodge/status/19839… (super cool) - @lordOfAFew continues to drop wisdom: x.com/lordOfAFew/status/1983… and I fully agree with his thoughts here - @Must_be_Ash brings us a really cool demo on using AI to analyze and execute on ad placement with x402: x.com/Must_be_Ash/status/198… - @Covalent_HQ dropped SpeedRun, a prompt-to-earn platform, on Base with x402 integrated: x.com/Covalent_HQ/status/198… - Another awesome ecosystem map update from multiple people. Linking to the one from @milesdeutscher but believe it's original from Joyce of Crossmint: x.com/milesdeutscher/status/… - @CoinbaseDev just dropped a really good exploration into pay-per-crawl and per-per-use models: x.com/CoinbaseDev/status/198… - The Eliza team is cooking non-stop with some really cool updates like ERC-8004 swarms and more from @_cjft : x.com/_cjft/status/198216933… - @kempsterrrr and @ar_io_network dropped x402 stream: x.com/kempsterrrr/status/198… - @joenrv co-hosted an awesome x402 space with @shafu0x and loaf (lordofafew) : x.com/shafu0x/status/1983893… If I missed you, comment and tag what you're building or your project below. I do my best to get as much as I can but there is A LOT. If you want to ensure your project or updates are included next week, DM me at any time or tag me in it directly. Additionally moving forward going to close out with a couple of my thoughts and where I'm spending time: 1. I think there is a massive opportunity in the pure x402 payment play that is undervalued 2. I think that we will see more and more collaboration between open-protocols to help bring more agents to each others protocol and drive adoption 3. I think that with the ability to do sub $0.0001 transactions in any token on SKALE, there is a major unlock waiting to happen for agentic growth and adoption (DM if you want to build) See you next week, TheGreatAxios (None of this message is financial advice).

The JSON-RPC Methods implemented as x402 protected endpoints for all critical @SkaleNetwork chains including the new SKALE Base Sepolia testnet. - Agents paying on @base can now craft transactions and access SKALE RPCs via the discovery layer through @devbydirtroad API - This can be consumed by @CoinbaseDev Payments MCP at the Bazaar level to ideally expand network support (tbd) - Other node providers who want their RPCs made available can DM me and I can easily add any EVM network with limited headache - Payment support will be added on SKALE enabling the cost for simple calls to drop well below the current limit of $0.001 set by the majority of services Other Things I Learned & Open Thoughts 1. Grok Fast Code still has pretty rough code design skills (it complimented my recommendation, or is it just messing with me)? 2. The actual design of x402-protected APIs so far is much simpler than MCPs 3. An interesting question is whether the discovery layer by @x402Foundation and @CoinbaseDev remove explicit need for MCP as much. Maybe not entirely but @x402scan composer is just ripping calls left and right to primarily APIs from what I can see from others (and mine) and the agents have zero issues. So if the discovery layer gets better to the point where the agents can really just magically grab what they need MCP could be reduced in value, maybe? 4. I think x402 on chains that can support <$0.001 will enable node providers to make significantly more money. not profitable for facilitators on most chains but we can do this on SKALE and bring truly micro transactions to life

We will 100000% be discussing how privacy relates to autonomous agents and x402. See you then! learn more about different ways to handle privacy onchain

Ok here are the must follows in x402 @joenrv @lordOfAFew @kleffew94 @x402scan @programmer @dabit3 @kleffew94 @jsonhedman @MurrLincoln @rsproule @TheGreatAxios @samrags_ @notorious_d_e_v @dmihal @Must_be_Ash @henloitsjoyce @merit_systems

x402 is off to the races and continues to show incredible growth. A key piece of this is the gasless design behind the protocol stemming from the Transfer with Authorization contract officially known as EIP-3009. A quick intro and my newest blog 👇 EIP-3009, transfer with authorization, brings gasless meta-transactions without the need for an ERC-20 approval to life. With the majority of support across EVM chains being for @USDC only; the space is ripe for growth here (keep your eyes on @SkaleNetwork ). This has allowed not just @CoinbaseDev , but incredible teams like @PayAINetwork @AurraCloud @x402rs @corbits_dev @daydreamsagents @thirdweb to push forward the adoption of x402 by covering the cost of gas. (Yes, they are paying for it). This blog dives into the flow of x402, what is EIP-3009, comparing it with EIP-2612, the truth about gasless, and an intro and callout to the network who can actually make x402 truly gasless (shoutout SKALE). Let me know your thoughts! thegreataxios.com/blog/the-g…

x402 Weekly Wrap Up #3 This week was absolute mayhem with new facilitators, MCPs, x402 integrations, tooling, infra, dApps, bounties, and more! If I missed you or your project (I apologize), just comment or QT. Check it out 👇 - @a16zcrypto dropped their State of Crypto 2025 report. This included a callout that with AI and crypto converging an economy of autonomous agents is estimated to reach $30T by 2030. This was arguably the biggest catalyst this week with everyone jumping on board. The take: "the TAM for x402 is in the 'trillions'" - Kevin Leffew x.com/a16zcrypto/status/1981… - @virtuals_io announced that all agent tokens are now live on @coinbase which kicked off a wave of new additions to popular token listing platforms and exchanges like @BinanceWallet , @coingecko and more! (Not financial advice) x.com/virtuals_io/status/198… - @CoinbaseDev dropped Payments MCP, the easiest way for AI agents to come onchain via x402. Supercharge your LLMs like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to access onchain tools like wallets, ramps, and more with NO api keys required: x.com/CoinbaseDev/status/198… - @programmer and team led an AWESOME x402 developer call to discuss and iron out the v2 spec. x402 V2 is coming! Tons of progress and it's been an honor to contribute. - The @AtlantaFed wrote a great article showing a strong understanding of x402 and the potential for both humans and agents: x.com/TheGreatAxios/status/1… - @joenrv dropped the Nexus MCP from @thirdweb which brings hundreds of private APIs directly to your AI without needing api keys or accounts: x.com/joenrv/status/19816541… - @merit_systems open sourced @x402scan: x.com/shafu0x/status/1981747… and brought the world bounties! - @solana has officially been added to x402scan with @0xPolygon and @Optimism coming up next - @PayAINetwork and @corbits_dev are leading the charge with Solana x402 support with PayAI looking to have the lions share of the market currently - @SkaleNetwork dropped the SKALE Expand plan with the first expansion chain already live on @base Sepolia Testnet: x.com/SkaleNetwork/status/19…. I have helped design this chain to more purpose-built than any other EVM for x402. Truly gasless is coming for x402 facilitators. Want to build on SKALE while staying in the Base ecosystem? DM me. @NovaNet_zkp built out trustless agents with pay-per-zkinference: x.com/NovaNet_zkp/status/198… - The @ethereumfndn and @marco_derossi from what I could see 100 developers and contributors joined the ERC-8004 community call: x.com/bondoncredit/status/19… (which included a number of callouts to x402) - @pingobserver went crazy and became the first token mintable via x402 (not financial or investment advice. I do not own any at the time of writing this). - @dabit3 and team @eigencloud are shipping like crazy with a number of projects including an A2A and x402 library for typescript. He also dropped an awesome 5 minute tutorial into building x402 agents on Eigenlayer: x.com/dabit3/status/19817776… - @mcpaytech dropped their V2 (which is awesome) joined me for SKALE School Episode 3 and dropped some knowledge on the value of powering up agents with MCP tools - @1shotapi dropped x402 in a box; bringing monetization via x402 to @n8n_io : x.com/1shotapi/status/198073… - @ccatalini gave us an amazing talk on how open networks are the foundation for the next era of payments with protocols like x402 paving the way: x.com/ccatalini/status/19817… - @0xPolygonEco dropped the LLM Wallet MCP Server (think maybe before Coinbase if I'm not mistaken): x.com/0xPolygonEco/status/19… - @questflow is preparing to ship TARS 3.0 and did 1000000 other amazing things. (Awesome team): x.com/questflow/status/19816… - @henloitsjoyce dropped an awesome x402 eco map: x.com/henloitsjoyce/status/1… - @nemild gave a talk at @iitbombay on Wednesday about x402 and agentic payments and @kleffew94 presented at the first x402 meetup in NYC hosted by @_rishinsharma : x.com/_rishinsharma/status/1… - @0xWagyu_ built a coffee shop cart with x402: x.com/0xWagyu_/status/198131…. Really cool example outside of the world of agents! - @Bankless dropped their thoughts on x402 with a nice callout to the explosion in usage: x.com/BanklessHQ/status/1980… - @switchboardxyz feeds are now x402 compatible thanks to Corbits SDK: x.com/switchboardxyz/status/… - @edgeandnode had a really strong live stream on the future of the agentic economy: x.com/edgeandnode/status/198… - @hedera opened a BIG PR on Coinbase x402: github.com/coinbase/x402/pul… to add support for Header network. Shoutout to the dev who wrote all the tests. - @nansen_ai dropped an awesome case study with @corbits_dev on building the future of agentic commerce: x.com/nansen_ai/status/19806… As always, if you are building in the world of x402, agents, and broader AI; don't hesitate to reach out for collaboration, support, or just to share what you're building! Great work by the x402 community, excited to see what we build next week! If I missed you, QT or comment what you're building.

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TL;DR - new blog, new blog post, new position, more x402 Agentic Update First A new blog post on the role of Pay-Per-Tool in an Agentic World: thegreataxios.com/blog/the-r… Some background on this piece: - it introduces tools, what they are, why they are needed - It walks through why I think pay-per-tool is the next logical step - it explores @Cloudflare pay-per-crawl as an example - it 100% has a broken image because @wevm_dev vocs doesn't like me - it proposes x402 as the default solution for pay-per-tool - it explores blockchain scalability and costs, specifically focusing on @solana , @base , and @SkaleNetwork - it looks through the existing limits of most EVM chains and the lack of economics that functionally make sense at global scale to do this - it explores a deep scalability scenario (I use real numbers and made up numbers) from Alex Bocharov's 2023 year old cloudflare http numbers - it explores the reality of what tools will need to be priced at to be feasible for agents Overall, I'm ok with this piece but honestly struggled a bit to write about it. I've found that articulating what's going on in my brain is becoming harder as I get more excited about a particular topic. Especially since this is all new I definitely don't have the poise yet around the AI side like I feel I do for SKALE. Not going to lie though, I think the SKALE portion of this is great. I think SKALE could do wonders for helping Base and/or Solana scale to meet the needed demands with no downtime for the future of agents. (more soon). I have a laundry list of things to experiment on but I think it's important to push forward the idea of why micropayments and x402 are going to change how consumption of agentic resources is done in reality not just in theory. More Personal Updates 1. New blog -- thegreataxios.com (doesn't have the OG popups yet), but am officially starting to track my work. Can't for the life of me figure out why images and favicon are not working. Can I get some help @wevm_dev 2. Have had a few projects today already reach out asking for guidance, support, or feedback. I love this. Please don't stop asking. Not sure why but have always been drawn to helping others and technical education so please don't hesitate to ask. 3. If you are looking to collaborate on research, demos, blogs make sure to shoot me a message. Happy to discuss working with anyone on this as we work to bring more agents to life